EIGHT MILLION AND ONE: A Scenery Film from a Future of Infrastructural Sublimes Design Studio

Fall 2022 DS 5000

Instructor: Jennifer Chen

Partner: Eunice Yun Tung Liu

The film illuminates the geo-engineering approach, Direct Air Capture systems, or DAC. We imagine a near future where DAC has become economically viable so that they become an integral part of our landscapes and a new kind of infrastructural sublime.

In our story, we chart across landscapes and time, we see DAC systems grow and change as they become a part of our landscapes. The film is a homage to these systems that could clean up our world and remedy the climate, and a hopeful glimpse of what we could achieve if the world come together in a single vision. It is postcards of sublime infrastructural landscapes from our possible future.

DAC is an earth machine that helps us fight climate change. DAC is an urban furniture that is indispensable to our lives. DAC is an art work that emblazons and stays in our memories.